Earnings roundup: Bank of America, Coke, Goldman

View full sizeThe Associated PressJane Choi holds cans of Coca-Cola and Diet Coke this past March at Anne's Deli in Portland. The Atlanta-based company said strong sales overseas, led by the strength of its namesake beverage, powered healthy second-quarter results.

More than 100 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index are set to release quarterly results this week. Here's recap of today's results:

Peabody Energy said profit rose 38 percent in the second quarter and predicted
further improvement for the rest of the year because of higher coal
prices and beefed-up production of Australian coal used in steelmaking.

Wells Fargo: Second-quarter earnings rose 29 percent as the amount the bank set aside to cover potential loan losses fell by more than half. Wells Fargo reported a profit of $3.95 billion, or 70 cents a share, up
from $3.06 billion, or 55 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue
fell 4.7 percent to $20.4 billion.